odds and ends

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odds and ends (British, American & Australian, British & Australian, informal)

a group of small objects of different types which are not very valuable or important. I eventually found my keys buried beneath the odds and ends in the bottom of my bag.

See also: end, odds

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THEN Hunca Munca went back and fetched a chair, a bookcase, a bird-cage, and several small odds and ends. The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context More results

References in classic literature

THEN Hunca Munca went back and fetched a chair, a bookcase, a bird-cage, and several small odds and ends.

The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context

But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

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